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Historical Event on 11/30/1986
Sikhs hijack bus, killing 24 at Punjab.
Other Historical Dates and Events |
2/8/1999 | Gen. K. Sundarji (69), former Chief of Army Staff, died in New Delhi. |
8/26/1874 | Ishwar Sharan Munshi, politician and philosopher, was born. |
2/14/1933 | W. R. Sonar, famous marathi poet, author, playwright, editor and publisher, was born. |
1/26/1995 | Three powerful bombs rip through a celebration at a sports stadium in Kashmir as the State Governor addresses the crowd;7 people killed and 47 injured. |
11/6/1904 | Hariharnath Shastri, worker's leader, was born. |
5/25/1997 | Seven Pakistani infiltrators are killed in an encounter with BSF in Ranbir Singh Pora. |
1/8/2000 | The Government reconstitutes the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Trust and retains Mrs. Sonia Gandhi as a trustee along with Mr. P. V. Narasimha Rao, Prof. Yashpal and Dr. Abid Hussain. |
1/26/2001 | Bharat Ratna, India's highest award, was given to Lata Mangeshkar. |
2/7/1954 | The present cres: the motto ""Shastra Se Shakti"" was adopted. In 1989, Hindi lettering of ""Shastra Se Shakti"" was adopted. |
5/19/1904 | Jamshedji Nasarvanji Tata, famous industrialist and father of modern technology, passed away at Nauheim, Hesse-Nassau, France. He commenced cotton mills in Bombay and Nagpur and founded the Tata Iron and Steel Company, which is one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world. |
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